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Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Warp, 2020)

Chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 11:44:48 +0000

Something I’ve talked about at great length in the past is nostalgia, it’s such a powerful force and point of obsession running across and through music. Perhaps it’s a generational thing, perhaps it’s simply a rose-tinted goggles perspective that is a universal human constant; either way these retrospective views of the world have a frequently […]

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Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini – Illusion of Time (Phantasy, 2020)

Chris — Sat, 23 May 2020 17:07:18 +0000

I seem to end up talking about time a lot. Time, time, time. Part of this, it seems, is that as my friends and I get older, we find ourselves increasingly coming to terms with the fact that we’re moving (or have moved) beyond our youth. Adult life has its perks obviously, but as we […]

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Ian William Craig – Short of Breath/Fresh Breath (Recital, EPs, 2014/2018)

Chris — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:25:39 +0000

“One hour was sunlit and the most high gods May not make boast of any better thing Than to have watched that hour as it passed” Those are the words of poet Ezra Pound from “Erat Hora”, also sung here in Short of Breath by Ian alongside intimate guitar. It is an ode to a moment, […]

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Biosphere – The Petrified Forest (Biophon Records, 2017)

Chris — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 16:14:35 +0000

Biosphere’s Geir Jennssen wrote in a FactMag interview after the release of his last record that he “-always mean[s] to make a completely different album from the previous one”; a fairly bold statement, not least since with The Petrified Forest actually seems like something of a turning back of the clock to some of his earliest content. […]

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Stijn Hüwels & Danny Clay – An Unintended Space (Eilean Records, 2017)

Chris — Sat, 13 May 2017 15:30:48 +0000

If there was a sound for sitting quietly, a record that brought to musical life the act of being still and thoughtful in places new and old, it would be An Unintended Space. This is a record of whispers, of careful drone builds and gentle notations drifting out in blissful minimalism and reductive candour. There’s introspection here […]

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Federico Durand – La Nina Junco (12k, 2017)

Chris — Sun, 07 May 2017 13:40:48 +0000

6 years ago I would have found myself revising in the garden for some of my last school exams at this very table, perhaps beneath this same umbrella. 2 years before that, and I was revising for my GCSEs when I was 16. The scenery’s different now; the family home moved and now I sit […]

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Julianna Barwick – Will (Dead Oceans, 2016)

Chris — Wed, 18 May 2016 17:19:43 +0000

A sense of development in an artist’s sound is an essential and expected aspect of their career; it’s difficult to maintain that which made someone popular initially across many records without becoming stale, and it seems like with some sense of reluctance Barwick is making the correct estimation that she can’t languish in the same pink […]

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Desert Island Discs #4: Jesse Somfay – NotR

Chris — Sat, 14 May 2016 16:59:39 +0000

Some years of your life are more peculiar than others; overall every year ends up being pretty peculiar in its own way, no two ever being the same afterall, but some are unquestionably more dynamic and filled with change and upheavals than others. 2011, the year I first listened to Somfay, the year I left […]

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Marble Sky – No Matter How Close (Callow God, 2009)

Chris — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:41:54 +0000

Jeff Witscher’s Marble Sky project was an unfortunately short lived affair; for just a few brief years in the late 2000’s we were granted only two records and an extremely limited collection of rare tapes following them. Indeed, No Matter How Close itself was a tour-only promotional and had a run of a painfully elite 30 cassettes […]

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Federico Durand – A Traves Del Espejo (12k, 2016)

Chris — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:31:38 +0000

Durand’s latest output entitled Through The Mirror is more telling than meets the eye; caught in the faintness of his effortlessly organic instrumental tumblings and tape looped pleasantry is a younger man peering back through the glass, a reflection chronologically displaced and unreachable despite our yearnings. Through these Mediterranean twinklings we get a sense of […]

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